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Letter to the editor from Ray Gallup
by Lorraine Fraser, Medical Correspondent, I would
like to say that our organization will continue to support the research of
Andrew Wakefield, MD, without doubt. I think I can speak for all the parents in
the U.S. and say that we were saddened that the Royal Free Hospital let a
doctor of the caliber of Andrew Wakefield leave.
To those that have opposed Andrew Wakefield's pursuit
of science and his findings, I say that they have gained only a Pyrrhic
victory. Andrew Wakefield will be vindicated in the history of medical science
and those that opposed him will not even be relegated to a footnote. What has happened
will only galvanize the parents to press for more science and the detractors of
Andrew Wakefield will find that they will be under heavy fire for avoiding the
truth. This event will not stop the science from moving forward.
"A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth."
-- Albert Einstein, letter to a friend, 1901
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820
"What's the point of vaccination if it doesn't protect you from the unvaccinated?"
-- Sandy Gottstein
"Who gets to decide what the greater good is and how many will be sacrificed to it?"